The Outline

Grief doesn’t have five stages

Despite what we want to believe, there is no linear path through loss.

Taylor Swift will put this blog on Instagram if we’re nice enough

The keto diet is a recipe for disaster

The Future Sep 05

Mr. Carlson’s electronics YouTube makes every problem seem manageable

Snitching-ass startup raises $10 million to privatize the surveillance state

A dog’s nose work is never done

With Return of the Trill, Bun B raps to heal a broken city

The Future

The alleged cost of one negative review posted by a high-level beauty influencer.

Notable

If Bank of America thinks you’re not a U.S. citizen, say goodbye to your bank account

The latest conservative cause is getting pissed off about animal crackers

Stephen Miller owns stock in exactly one company, and that company is Disney

The New York Public Library is turning classic novels into Instagram Stories

Turns out snails are Instagrammy as hell

Early cyanotype prints feel like visions of an unrealized future

Craigslist Confessional: Did I ruin my friends’ lives?

The Future Aug 31

Info Spiral: How much water is left?

The Future Aug 31

Here’s how Google knows when an online ad makes you buy the product in real life

Armie Hammer could be the world’s most prolific serial killer

Dennis Cooper doesn’t want you to look away

Can we get some crazy broke Asians, too?

Must reads

The most popular personality test in the world is a joke

17

The number of years before the “point of no return” for the health of our planet.

Are men really hard-wired to desire younger women?

It sounded just like he was trying to work out some new material, almost like any time of the last 10 years he would come
in at the beginning of a new act.

32%

increase in risk of premature death for people with low carbohydrate intake

The million-dollar brownstone that no one owned

Culture

I miss the old Kanye

The artist’s latest radio interview gave us glimpses of the West we used to love.

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Tomorrow 130: The resistance of Eoin Higgins

Tomorrow 129: Amanda Hess and the fembot army

Tomorrow 128: James T. Green knows the song of the Summer

Tomorrow 127: Everything’s a meme with Taylor Lorenz

The Outline World Dispatch

Tomorrow 125: Now Laura June’s Heart is Full

Tomorrow 124: Facing Off an Impossible Mission

Tomorrow 123: Full Contact With Jeremy Gordon

Tomorrow 122: Full Court Press with Pema Levy

Out West Podcast, Season 2 Episode 10: The real world

Tomorrow 121: T.C. Sottek is on a Quest

Out West Podcast, Season 2 Episode 9: The Teddinator

Tomorrow 120: You Can't Run Indefinitely

Out West Podcast, Season 2 Episode 8: Take my heart when you go

Tomorrow 119: Naomi Fry knows John Mayer*

Out West Podcast, Season 2 Episode 7: Ghost Nation, Woke Nation

Out West Podcast, Season 2 Episode 6: Hat evidence

Tomorrow Podcast 118: Doing Some Heavy Lifting

Out West Podcast, Season 2 Episode 5: what’s the WiFi password?

NOBODY is talking about how the online depression community has been infiltrated by alt-right recruiters.

Tomorrow Podcast 117: The TV is Lying

Out West Podcast, Season 2 Episode 4: It’s lupus!

Tomorrow Podcast 116: Stepping into the Light

The Future

The hardcore softshell turtle that refuses to disappear

The Future

Our new seasons will be rain, wind, and fire

Culture

Your favorite indie rock musicians want to change the way we think about streaming

Culture

Who watches the men? #11: Nothing ever ends

Culture

Stop remaking good movies and start remaking bad ones

The Future

The robots have our groceries

Power

The Postal Service is desperately trying to appeal to millennials

Culture

You know nothing about your dog

The Future

Lonely, anxious narcissists are at high risk of Facebook addiction

Power

Plenty of people are pro-abortion

Culture

Norman Dawn’s hundred year-old special effects look even more magical today

The Future

Get a glimpse of futurism that critiqued the future

Power

RBG says she’ll remain on the court for at least five years, but why not forever?

Culture

Surprise! Hollywood still lacks diversity

Power

Banning smoking in public housing is cruel and unnecessary

The Future

Put your phone in Do Not Disturb mode forever

Join me in a buzz-free, ping-free, vibration-free, light-up-free world.

Think on it

The racist language of space exploration

This year’s hottest cultural trend is goats

Open floor plans are terrible for entertaining

How to sign away the rights to your DNA

Short albums are good

Culture

flagrant foul

Need a celebrity endorsement for your bullshit company?

What I want is a single buffalo wing

Who watches the men? #10: End of an empire

For better and for worse, the ‘Playboy Magazine’ of the ’70s helped shape the America of today

Read this amazing Twitter history of Missy Elliott

Power

Donald Trump’s Russian Collusion: The cast of characters

Who’s involved, and what did they do?

Future

Healthy versions of your favorite candy are coming, and they are abominations

The best Twitter account is @redditships

High-fat diets make it hard to feel full

No, the internet has not destroyed our attention spans

Amazon is almost certainly making a healthcare play

11 tons

How much extra plastic ends up in our wastewater because people flick their contacts into the sink.

420M

The number of years coelacanths have survived on Earth, not evolving, not bothering us, just trying to live.

Turns out the financial sector is okay with regulation, but only for AI

Let’s all go back to Tumblr

Culture

Power

Clothing companies are funding our national parks because the government won’t

Ants are communist as hell

There is no such thing as being ready for love

It all comes out in the end

Wait, it only costs $195 a night to stay at Mar-A-Lago?

How small women’s pockets are, visualized

You’re weirding me out honestly

How to hack a voting machine in two minutes

Elon Musk, the new king of debt

The free prison tablets that aren’t

We’re sorry, your senator cannot be reached at this time

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